Irish Republican Socialist paramilitary activist. Steenson was member of the Irish National Liberation Army group during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Christened "Docter Death" by sections of the media, he is widely associated with internecine violence between Irish Republican factions. Originally with the INLA from a young age, he came to notoriety as a sixteen year old for killing Billy McMillen the Official IRA's Belfast leader during the IRSP/INLA's feud with the Officials from whom they'd split in 1974. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) is an Irish republican paramilitary organization which was formed on December 8, 1974. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto: Quis separabit (Latin: Who will separate?) Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area  - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 4th 1,685,267... Fianna Fáil - The Republican Party (Pronounced fee-na fall.) (English: Soldiers of Destiny) is the largest political party in the Republic of Ireland. ... The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) was formed on 8 December 1974 as the military wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (a political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), was formed the same day) by Seamus Costello and other activists who had left or been forced out of... The term Official IRA relates to one of the two elements of the Irish Republican Army - the other being the Provisional IRA - that emerged from the ideological split in the Irish Republican movement in 1969-70. ... Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) describes itself as a republican socialist party and claims to be both Marxist and Republican. ...

The INLA lost their inspirational leader Seamus Costello in the feud, and as the movement lost its way in the aftermath of the feud and through the 1981 hungerstrikes it was riven by internal divisions between party and army and Belfast and Dublin, as well as having the quality of it's membership diluted. Seamus Costello (1939 - 1977) was a leader in Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army. ...

By 1985 all of the best activists were in jail on the words of "supergrasses" such as Harry Kirkpatrick, and the tensions that this created on top of the already existing schisms led to various factions coalescing around certain individuals. Steenson, Harry Flynn, Jimmy Brown and others formed the Irish People's Liberation Organisation with the express intention of wiping out the INLA and IRSP which they had seen as becoming corrupt and an obstacle to the fight for socialism and Irish freedom. Steenson argued in letters written while he was in prison in the early '80s that the INLA had become militarily inefficient and undisciplined and that this had led to involvment in criminality and sectarian attacks. Ironically, very same allegations could be justly levelled at Steenon's new organisation. The term supergrass refered to arrested IRA members who divulged the identities of their compatriots to the Royal Ulster Constabulary in exchange for immunity from prosecution, essentially, an informer. ... His Excellency, the Most Reverend Harry Joseph Flynn (b. ... Jimmy Brown might refer to: James Brown, a musician who was a singer, dancer and bandleader, known as the Godfather of Soul Jim Brown, an American football player Jimmy Brown, an Irish nationalist, one-time leader of the Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation Jimmy Brown, Gambino crime family Capo and... Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation was formed in 1986 by disaffected and expelled members of the Irish National Liberation Army in the aftermath of the supergrass trials. ... Jump to: navigation, search The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ...

Whatever their criticisms of what the IRSP and INLA had become, the IPLO were worse, their attacks on the IRSM left many in Belfast's nationalist communities living in terror and many volunteers dead on both sides. Steenson was killed with his friend Tony McCarthy, which, after two revenge killings of INLA men was the end of the feud. However, aside from some sickening sectarian attacks on Protestants, it seemed incapable of taking the war to the British or Loyalist forces. Sectarianism is an adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination, it also usually involves a rejection of those not a member of ones sect. ...

The IPLO began to implode under the leadership of the colourful Jimmy Brown aka Brown the Clown, first splitting on territorial lines and then being closed down by the Provisional IRA as it became something far more corrupt and drug ridden than anything that it claimed to be against.

The IPLO's sole contributions to Ireland and Socialism were the introduction of ecstacy to Dublin and Belfast and coming close, but failing to destroy the Republican Socialist Movement, despite killing it's most visonary thinker since Costello - Thomas 'Ta' Power. ecstasy (drug) and religious ecstasy Ecstasy, from the Greek ekstasis, to be outside oneself, is a category of trance or trancelike states in which an individual transcends ordinary consciousness and as a result has a heightened capacity for exceptional thought or experience. ...

Sources

• Henry McDonald, INLA - Deadly Divisions